Author: Richard Brown

via Sam Coleman; *The Phenomenal Qualities Project* Podcasts now available on the Project website- Featuring: Tim Crane, David Papineau, Philip GoffJerry Valberg, Andreas Hutteman, Sam Coleman on such topics as: The nature of phenomenal concepts, perception,consciousness and metaphysics, intentionalism,qualia, physicalism. Podcasts available at:https://phenomenalqualities.wordpress.com/phenomenal-podcasts/ See also our uploaded papers, and photos from recent …

(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) The NYU Mind and Language seminar has started up again with a really excellent line up. I hope to blog about them as they happen… Last Monday I attended Ned Block’s session on his paper Attention and Mental Paint. I have talked about an earlier version of …

 I am pleased to announce that the program for the Second OnlineConsciousness Conference has been finalized. It is available here:https://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com . I hope youwill join us *February 19th-March 5th* for what promises to be a veryexciting conference. Please post and distribute widely; apologies for crossposting.

(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) Via David Rosenthal- There was a conference entitled “Theory Of Consciousness In Analytic Phenomenology And Philosophy Of Mind,” at the University of Bern, Switzerland, May 27-29, 2009. Podcasts of the talks are, for the next 2-3 years, at https://cast.switch.ch/vod/channels/g3bo2419i Talks are by David M. Rosenthal, Gianfranco …

This interesting article in the New York Times got me thinking. We seem to be at a computational crossroad. If we are really about to hit a wall with respect to improving processing speed and power with traditional scaling techniques (though see this interesting article on a recent breakthrough in spintronics and this …

(cross posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I have previously argued that synchronous neural activity is a candidate for a theoretical account of  what a brain state is.  Here is an Interesting article reviewing a new paper that suggests an interesting role for neural synchrony. I would be interested to hear what others thought about the idea …

Update: If anyone is interested, I posted a couple more thoughts on this discussion at Philosophy Sucks! On Tuesday I attended a discussion with Kati Balog of her paper Zombies, Illuminati, and Metaphysical Gridlock which was very interesting. She begins by thinking about zombies and the things they say. If there …